Soleils [Suns] is a video work based on the compilation of all the written and published sentences of the French writer Émile Zola, which contain the word sun. This collection of sentences is reordered to create the story of a day, from the sunrise to its decline. Through this literary cut-up, appears a composite female character who maintains a game of seduction with the star. The video is built around a revolution of the sun, the colors of which are determined by the descriptions of the luminous temperature that Zola wrote. At the end of the day, a dream composed of solar hallucinations gives access to the unconscious of the female character. In sum, the editing process reveals the subliminal nature of writing and how it can be traversed by intuitive writings.

The Soleils project was realized during a creative residency at Maisons Daura in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (France) between September 14 and October 27, 2017, thanks to the support of 3e impérial, centre d'essai en art actuel (Granby, Québec) and la Maison des Arts Georges et Claude Pompidou (Cajarc, France), as well as the support of le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. My thanks go to Danyèle Alain, Martine Michard, Claire Jean, Benjamin Coquard, the team at la Maison des Arts Georges et Claude Pompidou, as well as to the artists with whom I shared the Maisons Daura: Manifa N'diaye, Lihn Nguyen, Benjamin Paré and Gwendoline Samidoust.